{"id":1205612,"date":"2022-01-10T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205612"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:35:13","slug":"poll-economy-still-top-priority-while-inflation-worries-rise-and-covid-fears-fade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-economy-still-top-priority-while-inflation-worries-rise-and-covid-fears-fade\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Economy Still Top Priority, While Inflation Worries Rise and Covid Fears Fade"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-economy-still-top-priority-while-inflation-worries-rise-and-covid-fears-fade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205612&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1358299645-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The U.S. economy is the top priority for Americans, with inflation worries rising and pandemic-related fears waning, a poll released Monday showed.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-eight percent of Americans mention the economy in some way when asked an open-ended question about the top five priorities for the government to work on in 2022, according to a year-end poll <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-health-elections-bb16c5c52e2bf719ec8a0c5415aaf66c\">taken by the Associated Press<\/a>. Just 37 percent cited the virus, down from 53 percent a year earlier.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Mentions of inflation are up to 14 percent from one percent a year ago. Mentions of the cost of living jumped to 24 percent from 12 percent last year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The AP reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Heading into a critical&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/midterm-elections\">midterm election year<\/a>, the top political concerns of Americans are shifting in ways that suggest Democrats face considerable challenges to maintaining their control of Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-256 Component-p-0-2-242\">A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that management of&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/coronavirus-pandemic\">the coronavirus pandemic<\/a>, once an issue that strongly favored President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats, is beginning to recede in the minds of Americans. COVID-19 is increasingly overshadowed by concerns about&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-nhl-technology-entertainment-sports-4e3dde5757172cc9124774e13ea7c47a\">the economy<\/a>&nbsp;and personal finances \u2014 particularly inflation \u2014 which are topics that could lift Republicans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-256 Component-p-0-2-242\">No wonder Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/07\/malarkey-joe-biden-snaps-at-claim-he-is-not-focused-on-inflation\/\">is struggling to describe<\/a> the widespread impression that he and his party are unconcerned with inflation as \u201cmalarkey,\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. economy is the top priority for Americans, with inflation worries rising and pandemic-related fears waning, a poll released Monday showed. 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